Why were the Erie Canal and packet lines, such as the Black Ball Line, such transportation innovations?
How did the construction of the Erie Canal contribute to the commercial development of New York City?
How did the establishment of packet lines, such as the Black Ball Line, also contribute to the commercial development of New York City?
The Black Ball Line: Primary Sources:
Black Ball Advertisement from New York Evening Post, 27 October 1817 from the Collections of the New York Historical Society. http://www.nydivided.org/popup/Documents/BlackBallLine.php
Robert G. Albion, "Planning the Black Ball Line, 1817," The Business History Review, vol. 41 no. 1, (Spring, 1967), pp. 104-107. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3112423
Secondary Sources:
Chapter One from Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships by Stephen Fox, (New York: HarperCollins, 2004). http://www.wnyc.org/books/18589
The Black Ball Line:
Primary Sources:
Black Ball Advertisement from New York Evening Post, 27 October 1817 from the Collections of the New York Historical Society.
http://www.nydivided.org/popup/Documents/BlackBallLine.php
Robert G. Albion, "Planning the Black Ball Line, 1817," The Business History Review, vol. 41 no. 1, (Spring, 1967), pp. 104-107.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3112423
Secondary Sources:
Chapter One from Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships by Stephen Fox, (New York: HarperCollins, 2004).
http://www.wnyc.org/books/18589
The Erie Canal:
Primary Sources:
Tolls, Fares & Distances on the Erie Canal.
http://www.eriecanal.org/misc-1.html#toll
Secondary Sources:
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Website: The Erie Canal: A Journey Through History.
http://www.epodunk.com/routes/erie-canal/start.html